Selected Poems
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Selected Poems

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eBook - ePub

Selected Poems

About this book

Jack Underwood's selection from Maurice Riordan's work over the last forty years allows us to rediscover a poet whose musicality, wit and emotional acuity rank him as a leading poet of his and any generation.

Responding to the imaginative range of Riordan's preoccupations, Underwood creates a dynamic arrangement for poems rooted in particularities of time and place, yet enduring in their audacious inventions and pungent ironies. They are compelling in their immediacy, whether they evoke a childhood in rural Co. Cork, describe a remote community that has taken to the treetops to sing, or itemise the novelties and effronteries of aging. Riordan's work appears here as it demands to be read: at once contemporary and timeless, vibrant with the anxieties and pleasures of being alive in the here and now.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780571385010
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction by Jack Underwood
  5. The Seven Songs of Myself
  6. The Changeling
  7. The Lull
  8. #PoorMe
  9. The Narcissist
  10. The Sloe
  11. The Feast of the Holy Innocents
  12. Caisson
  13. The Nests
  14. Gone with the Wind
  15. A Word from the Loki
  16. On Not Experiencing the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
  17. Faun Whistling to a Blackbird
  18. Time Out
  19. Anniversary
  20. The Idylls
  21. Habits
  22. During the Recent Thunder & Lightning
  23. The Real Thing
  24. Stars and Jasmine
  25. The Moment
  26. The Face
  27. Last Call
  28. The Cranium
  29. Sky
  30. Shoulder Tap
  31. The Third Wish
  32. The Rug
  33. Slatterns
  34. The Flight
  35. The Dun Cow
  36. Badb
  37. Rural Electrification 1956
  38. The Age of Steam
  39. The Table
  40. Chair
  41. Beds
  42. Mediums
  43. Feet
  44. Gravel
  45. Playing with Water
  46. The Sphere
  47. The January Birds
  48. The Boy Turned into a Stag
  49. Gráinne to Finn
  50. Questions for the Oracle
  51. Southpaw
  52. Lumps
  53. The Jailbird
  54. With (a) Little Help from Rainer Maria Rilke
  55. A Carcass
  56. The Water Stealer
  57. Floods
  58. Notes and Acknowledgements
  59. List of Poems in Collections
  60. About the Authors
  61. By the Same Author
  62. Copyright